<p>^glad to hear she’s alive. She’s a hero.</p>
<p>I’m in London visiting my daughter, and this was the breaking news story on the TV at the restaurant where we had dinner tonight… graphic of Texas with Ft. Hood’s location noted on it. Didn’t want advertise to anyone that I grew up three hours from there.</p>
<p>I’m surprised a psychiatrist is liable for this. I’ve always been curious regarding why people undergo crimes.</p>
<p>So tragic! My prayers go out to all those affected by this tragedy. So sad too.</p>
<p>Can the news get even more heartbreaking?</p>
<p>First major act of Islamic terror on US soil since 9/11, if you don’t count the DC sniper incident.</p>
<p>Tragic.</p>
<p>This is terrible, and I am also pretty surprised it was a psychiatrist. You would hope that a psychiatrist would be more aware of their own mental health and the resources available to deal with whatever issues he was going through. Either way, I don’t understand what drives people to do things like this. Horribly senseless and selfish :(</p>
<p>What qualifies this as a “major act of Islamic terror” as opposed to, say, “another mass shooting by a psychotic current or former Virginia Tech student”? As yet, we have no information about why Maj. Hassan did what he did. He is a career Army officer born and raised in northern Virginia. He is Muslim, and always has been, but that does not make this “Islamic terror” any more than that other Virginia Tech shooter was perpetrating “Korean terror”.</p>
<p>Totally agree JHS. This has everything to do with mental illness & little to do with religion. As I posted in a similar thread in the Politics forum here:</p>
<p>I think it is human nature to try to “make sense” of such an incident. A warped religious fevor often grips those who are mentally ill–they become consumed by certain, narrow aspects of their religion. But as a country we’ve seen many other reasons ranging from hatred of the govt. (OK City) to hatred of school mates (Columbine) to hatred of the wealthy (VTech) to hatred of yourself (Amish school shootings) to ne-Nazi beliefs (Red Lake). One thing underlines all of these massacres–mental illness.</p>
<p>So were the 9/11 hijackers mentally ill as well? </p>
<p>This guy expressed support for suicide bombers attacking our troops overseas, and was raising red flags 6 months before the shootings happened. To blame this all on mental illness is a copout, in my opinion.</p>
<p>I guess we’ll get a better picture of this man’s mental state as investigation continues.</p>
<p>Seems that this shooting had no sophisticated planning or part of a larger plot having seeds overseas. I just see many more similarities here to the other 5 American massacres I cited in my post #29.</p>
<p>By reading reports I get the impression that there were clear warning signs. Why is it that we always see warning signs after the fact, before nobody has the courage to report anything?</p>
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<p>Thank you, JHS. Maybe his Muslimness had everything to do with it. Maybe it had nothing to do with it. We don’t know the full story yet.</p>
<p>"By reading reports I get the impression that there were clear warning signs. Why is it that we always see warning signs after the fact, before nobody has the courage to report anything? "</p>
<p>I think it’s because society is so consumed with political correctness that common sense goes right out the window.</p>
<p>Our newspaper stated that a friend of the shooter said that Hassan was scheduled to be deployed to the Middle East and was very upset about it. </p>
<p>S1 is in the military. This is scary stuff.</p>
<p>He was a Psychologist. He wasn’t going to be on the frontlines. While, of course, it would be scary he should have thought of that before going to med school using military’s bank account.</p>